Word: strife
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Even if these claims are valid, they are not new, especially to Black Americans. They should come as no surprise to any American nor should they because for the cessation of this long overdue remedy. Privilege (illgotten or otherwise) is seldom relinquished without strife...
...perhaps the most disturbing trend in Africa's postcolonial experience has been the continuation of tribal conflicts that have bedeviled the best-intentioned efforts at nation building. Kenya's Moi, a member of the minority Kalenjin tribe, calls modern Africa's tribal strife "the cancer that threatens to eat out the very fabric of our nation." From the beginning of the postcolonial period...
Bloom attributed society's excessive moral sensitivity to the strife of the 1960s, particularly associated with the movements for Black civil rights and women's liberation...
...Proxy wars. Careful as they have been to avoid a military clash, the superpowers run a constant risk of being dragged into one by the action of allies or clients they cannot control. One example: if the incessant factional strife...
...Lower Manhattan. Its character derives from its location. In a sense, the neighborhood serves as a pocket of resistance in the city, a sudden green rectangle cut out of the gray slabs, and away from the taxi horns. Yet the park needs the city, too, the way everyone needs strife to feel alive. When Christmas is celebrated here, life is celebrated, the life of a civilization huddled against itself. Nothing is really special about the people of Gramercy Park, other than that they chose Gramercy Park to li live in, choosing one another's company as much...